The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-05
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| RECENT discoveries of valuable slate beds and
deposits OF gold, silver, and ether minerals have
! been made In lincoln county, New Mexico.
| THERE is white oak tree in Gilman Pierce
county, Wis, that is 81 feet in circumference.
II is the largest tree in that part of the State.
The game of croquet has become so near OBJ
| solete that only few hundred sets are now
| sold where they used to sell by the tens OF
| thousands
PATENT MEDICINE MAN covered telegraph
poles in Carthage, \. Y, with hand bills. Then
| he had TO wash them all of, ana pay $40 fine 10
! the village besides.
The completion of the Chicago, Burlington
and Northern railway along the east bank of the
mississippi river has killed the steamboat bust
ness on the upper Mississippi.
THE snowsheds to be erected on the line of the
'sWitchbacks," over the Cascades in Washing
ton Territory, u distance of sixteen miles, viii
| consume 10 Co., 600 feet of lumber in their con-
| struction.
| o. L. MCCLELLAND was saved from striking on
his head in falling from load of hay near
| Hudson, Mich, by grabbing a mules tail. He
| says ne wouldn't be saved that way again for
| 100000.
A Tucson (Ari) restaurant advertises to give
| for dinner chicken soup roast mutton, turkey
| and pig, with mushroom sauce, chicken fricasse,
boiled ham, oyster pattieS Jelly rolls lemon pie,
| Ice cream and cakes and glass OF claret, all
| for pc.
SAMUEL CURTIS, constable of Cuba, Mo-, has
| freak of nature in the shape of q hens egg,
which has on one side the face Of clock and
some or the figures almost perfect i'll Roman
| numerals. The egg taken from the nest
| right after the hen laid il.
| IT is said that the plant which produces the
hcorice root of commerce (Glycyrrhiza glabra)
| will grow almost anywhere in the little valleys
and flats of Nevada without irrigation or cuiGi-
| walton. There is an indigenous plant of the
| same species that grows wild everywhere on the
| hills.
| The editor of the Cornwall On. W Register
has watch he has carried for sixty years, and
| his father before him carried it for ten years
He says it has been drowned twice and dashed
against wall, but is Just as good as new,
cept little piece broken out OF the edge of the
| face.
| The Mary Stuart tercenterary exhibition has
| revived controversy as to that Inflated Queens
| beauty. In most of the portraits shown she is
| decidedly plain looking, The color of her hair
| is in dispute, too. The common idea is that il
| was dark brown. But the lock of it in Queen
| Victoria's possession is very light. Perhaps she
| dyed it.
| THE real estate fever in Southern California
| is no respecter of persons. 1t attacks physi-
clans as vrulently as other moftals a few
| days since, according to the Press, a Riverside
| physician wrote q prescription, and under the
| head of directions said Take one-third
| down, and the remainder in one and two years,
| secured by mortgage"
The failure of the National Opera Company
leads correspondent of the New York Tribune
| to remark that Solomon once came to grief try
| ing to run an opera company, He remarked in
| Ecclesiastes, Il got me men singers and women
singers and musical instruments of all sorts; and
| behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit and
there was no profit under the sun.
THE man who travelled comfortably over
| Europe on o0c. day and deemed the feat so re-
| markable that he wrote a book about it has
| been left far behind by young railway laborer
| who reached Milwaukee, from Iron Mountain,
| Mich, having traveTSad the entire distance on q
cash capital of lc. 1t is not to be presumed that
| the young traveller lived luXuriously, but he
| lived
A FARMER near Hudson Mich. got his wife to
| help him lower his moving machine from the
barn loft, where it had been stored. He fastened
| rope to it, and passing it over pulley asked
! his wife to hold the end until he descended. She
! had Just taken hitch with the rope around her
| waist when the mower crashed down TO the
| floor and simultaneously she shot up where the
mud-wasps do their nest hiding. There has been
only one subject of conversation in that family
| SINCE and she has done all the talking.
A NEW CLOCK that is attracting considerable
attention represents the afterdecl of steam
yacht Coils of rope are laid about the deck and
| two small boats are suspended from the davits
The dial of the clock is set in front of the wheel
| house and in front Of it leading below is the
comP9nionway.. Above the dial is the wheel.
4 sailor has his hands on it and is represented
as steering the yacht. The wheel moves back
| ward and forward and the sailor moves with it,
Sailors holding the ropes are in various attitudes
about the deck.
D. o. MILLS is having a $1,000 bronze door
| made for the tomb that he is building at Tarry-
,r,,n L., D r..
| inches. The style is in imitation of the old
| fashioned oak doors, with lattice work top
The panelling, cross pieces and wood grooves
| are to be repeated in bronze. Three companion
pieces are to be made as windows. They are
| by feet, and in bronze lattice work The door
| will be one of the most tasteful pieces of bronze
| work turned out in that town for some time. It
| will be finished in a few weeks.
MEMBERS of the Salvation Army were arrested
| at San Bernardino, Cal, as nuisances, and the
| authorities announced that stop should he put
| TO their carvings on. Friends of the Saliva
| tionistS then declared if the letter Of the law
was to be enforced against them they would see
| that it was enforced with equal rigidity upon
| the gamblers, who are so bold and impudent in
town. Upon this announcement a saloon
| keeper promptly went bail for the Salvatiopists
| who returned to the street and footed their
| horns with renewed vigor and without further
| molestation.
STowAwAYs trouble English steamers more
this year than ever before To find ten or fifteen
Of them is common thing. They make friends
with the men who load the vessels and are nut
away wherever they can be secreted In vessels
that bring over brick the leaders will build I'D
little room around two or three men, and in
several cases from a dozen to two dozen men
have thus been secrcted. Most OF them are
tramps They only remain in their hiding places
till the vessel is well out to sea- when they make
their appearance to he supported during the
rest of the voyage.
IT ought to console people who are bitten this
summer by the mosquito TO be told by scien-
fist that the mosquito is wondrously beautiful.
place one" be says, under a microscope.
Adjust the lenses Now place your eye to the
eye-piece. Presto! The tiny dirt-colored speck
has vanished, and in its place appears the most
radiant and gorgeous creature which the mind
can conceive of. The wings are of pale amber.
The legs and thOrax magenta, the body dark
green, the eyes purpllsh black and glittering
IKE diamonds, the proboscis shining Ike ebony
Compared with this pomp and magnificence of
decoration the brightest and most vivid of the
painters pigments are muddy"
The betrothal is announced Of the second
daughter Of the Count and Countess of Paris,
Princess Helen, to young Dom Pedro, of Brazil
This prince, only q years Of age. is the eldest
son Of Prince August of Saxe-Gotha, Admiral
and commandments of thu Brazilian army
lie Is through his deceased mother. Princess
LeOpoldine, grandson of the rcgning Emperor
AS for the Princess Helen, who has just attained
her 18th year she is an accomplished Young
lady, and London society, which has had ODDor.